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15 questions
  1. The English set up their first factory at Surat with the permission of which emperor? (IAS 2009)
    1. Akbar
    2. Jahangir
    3. Shah Jahan
    4. Aurangzeb
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    Answer: (B) Jahangir

    Jahangir’s farman of 1613 allowed the Surat factory.

  2. Mughal painting reached its peak under —
    1. Humayun
    2. Akbar
    3. Jahangir
    4. Shah Jahan
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    Answer: (C) Jahangir

    Jahangir could even tell which painter had done which part of a picture.

  3. The mansabdari system was introduced mainly for — (IAS 1996)
    1. recruiting soldiers only
    2. collecting revenue
    3. religious harmony
    4. organising a clean, graded civil-military administration
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    Answer: (D) organising a clean, graded civil-military administration

    A mansab ranked a noble for civil and military duties together.

  4. Under Akbar, the head of the military department at the centre was the —
    1. Diwan
    2. Mir Bakhshi
    3. Mir Saman
    4. Sadr
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    Answer: (B) Mir Bakhshi

    The Mir Bakhshi also kept the records of the mansabdars.

  5. A: Under Akbar a mansabdar had to keep 20 horses for every 10 cavalrymen. R: Horses needed rest on the march and replacements in war.
    1. Both true, R explains A
    2. Both true, R does not explain A
    3. A true, R false
    4. A false, R true
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    Answer: (A) Both true, R explains A

    The extra horses were exactly for rest and replacement.

  6. Shah Jahan’s Balkh campaign was meant to —
    1. install a ruler friendly to the Mughals in Balkh–Badakhshan, beside Kabul
    2. win back Samarkand and Farghana
    3. fix the frontier on the Amu Darya
    4. build an empire beyond the subcontinent
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    Answer: (A) install a ruler friendly to the Mughals in Balkh–Badakhshan, beside Kabul

    A friendly buffer was the aim; the campaign failed.

  7. A: Akbar marched to Afghanistan with a large army in 1581. R: He wanted to recover his ancestral Farghana. (IAS 2003)
    1. Both true, R explains A
    2. Both true, R does not explain A
    3. A true, R false
    4. A false, R true
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    Answer: (C) A true, R false

    The target was his rebel half-brother Mirza Hakim at Kabul.

  8. In which battle was Dara Shikoh decisively routed, opening Agra to Aurangzeb?
    1. Dharmat
    2. Samugarh
    3. Deorai
    4. Khajwa
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    Answer: (B) Samugarh

    Samugarh (May 1658) was decisive; Deorai (1659) was his final defeat.

  9. Which was NOT a feature of Todar Mal’s Zabti system?
    1. Survey and measurement
    2. Classification of land
    3. Fixing rates
    4. Assessment every two years
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    Answer: (D) Assessment every two years

    Rates were fixed on a ten-year average, not reassessed every two years.

  10. Mewar submitted to the Mughals under Jahangir mainly because of the command of —
    1. Prince Parviz
    2. Prince Khurram
    3. Mahabat Khan
    4. Prince Khusrau
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    Answer: (B) Prince Khurram

    Rana Amar Singh made peace in 1615.

  1. Who was the civil and military head of a Mughal province?
    1. Diwan
    2. Nazim (Subedar)
    3. Bakhshi
    4. Faujdar
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    Answer: (B) Nazim (Subedar)

    The provincial Diwan looked after revenue.

  2. Who usually headed a sarkar?
    1. Amil
    2. Faujdar
    3. Sardar
    4. Kotwal
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    Answer: (B) Faujdar

    The amalguzar handled the sarkar’s revenue.

  3. Sant Tukaram was a contemporary of — (IAS 2006)
    1. Babur
    2. Akbar
    3. Jahangir
    4. Aurangzeb
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    Answer: (C) Jahangir

    Tukaram (1608–1649/50) lived under Jahangir and Shah Jahan.

  4. Which pair is wrongly matched?
    1. Samel 1544 — Maldeo
    2. Chanderi 1528 — Medini Rai
    3. Ghaghra 1529 — Rana Sanga
    4. Panipat 1526 — Ibrahim Lodi
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    Answer: (C) Ghaghra 1529 — Rana Sanga

    Ghaghra was against the Afghans and Nusrat Shah; Rana Sanga fell at Khanwa.

  5. Who translated the Upanishads into Persian?
    1. Faizi
    2. Abul Fazl
    3. Dara Shikoh
    4. Badauni
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    Answer: (C) Dara Shikoh

    As Sirr-i-Akbar (1657).

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